Daily Medieval

Batu Khan's military successes inspired Ögedei Khan to have him invade Europe. He had already conquered the Crimean Peninsula. Spies we...

Marco Polo is known for traveling to the Far East from Europe and observing things unknown to Europeans, but there were many travelers from ...

Several years ago I mentioned the Codex Cumanicus , a lexicon of the Cuman language designed to help Christian missionaries preach to the Cu...